Support "Sort Order" attribute for metadata.

[Ilkka Tuohela]

Sorting the field names in playlist should not treat special characters like ?!" in the sorting algorithm. For example, in my tags I have artists !Deladap which really should sort to D and "Weird Al" Yankovic which should go to W (or actually Y but let's not go to this :)

I request the names used for sorting to be stripped of these and other common special characters.

It would also be nice if national sorting rules could be selected independent of OS locale settings in use, for example in Finland åöä are last letters in alphabet (but I still use my mac in UK locale!). This is a separate issue, though.

[Daniel Schürmann (daschuer)]

look at:
http://musicbrainz.org/search?query=!Deladap&type=artist

Each artist has additional to the "Name" a "Sorting Name"

ID3 2.4 supports the frames
TSOA Album sort order
TSOP Performer sort order
TSOT Title sort order
see: http://www.id3.org/id3v2.4.0-frames

We should extend the Mixxx library with those frames.

For my feeling this should become hidden colums and if you sort to Artist the sorting should sort to TSOP column.

A nice extension would be, to look up http://musicbrainz.org if the TSOP is missing.

This might be a solution for the problem if you have Tracks with "!Deladap" and "Deladap" (without "!") as artist in Your library.

[Daniel Schürmann (daschuer)]

Please report a separate bug for the Finland åöä problem. Thank you.

[Ilkka Tuohela (hile)]

Yes, using various sort tags is correct solution I think. I'm fine tagging my library with these tags, just would like you to first decide on a supported method in mixxx so I don't need to rename the added sort tags multiple times.

BTW for AAC files itunes is using following tags:

'sort_album_artist': 'soaa'
'sort_album': 'soal'
'sort_artist': 'soar'
'sort_composer': 'soco'
'sort_name': 'sonm'
'sort_show': 'sosn'

I don't think vorbis has a 'official' name or this tag, maybe just use names like I defined above if no common one is defined.

[Swiftb0y (swiftb0y)]

Mixxx now uses GitHub for bug tracking. This bug has been migrated to:
https://github.com/mixxxdj/mixxx/issues/6154